4 people killed in separate attacks

Chicago cops probe stabbing, 3 shootings

Three people died of gunshot wounds over the weekend and a man was stabbed to death early Saturday, officials said.

Chicago police are investigating the four deaths as homicides. They have not found a motive or an offender in any of the killings.

Two young men were killed in separate drive-by shootings on the Far South and West Sides.

Marice Murray, 23, of the 10100 block of South Perry Avenue, died just before 2 a.m. Saturday of gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Police found Murray about 11 p.m. Friday in the 100 block of West 102nd Street, said Police Officer JoAnn Taylor.

Levon McNeil, 19, died Friday at Mt. Sinai Hospital after he was shot in the head March 11, officials said.

McNeil was shot a block from his home in the 700 block of North Menard Avenue and died five days later at the hospital, officials said.

McNeil was standing on the sidewalk when he was shot from a car, said Police Officer John Mirabelli.

The other two homicides took place on the West Side.

Gus Pettus, 49, of the 4900 block of West Iowa Street was stabbed to death early Saturday while on the street, officials said.

He was found dead in the 800 block of North Lavergne Avenue about 1:20 a.m., Taylor said. Police believe there was a quarrel between Pettus and the offender, who attacked Pettus with a knife, Taylor said.

An unidentified woman was found shot to death Friday in an abandoned home, officials said.

She was found in a first-floor bedroom about 5 p.m. in the 4800 block of West Race Avenue when police entered the home looking for an assailant in an unrelated drug incident, Mirabelli said.

In another incident, police are investigating the death of a man found in his Northwest Side apartment Saturday morning, officials said.

Janusz Pizon, a Polish immigrant in his 50s, was found unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom in the 3100 block of North Major Avenue in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood about 9 a.m., officials said.

He had rented a room there for about six months from Stefania Kubik, who lives downstairs. She found him lying dead on the floor of his room with a black eye and called police, she said. Police said they hoped to learn more from autopsy results to be released Sunday.